Obs of a Prnnl Lrnr Obsrvr who happens to be a dctr There is no cure for curiosity-D Parker
Monday, 30 April 2012
RD BK EVRYTHNG IS OBVIOUS- DJ WTTS
/////////////WSDOM AND MDNESS OF THE CROWDS
//////////////CIRCULAR REASONING KEEPS MONA LISA THE MOST NOTED PAINTING
//////////////I CM, I SWD , ICNQRD-MAGICIAN
////////////////PLACE IN HX OR IN REMAINDER TABLES
////////////////////..........Cambridge economist Joan Robinson would often say that “whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true”.
//////////////////CIRCULAR REASONING MAKES SHAKESPEARE THE MOST NOTED PLAYWRIGHT
/////////////////........more desperately poor people—421 million—live in JNDE today than in all of sub-THRN Bfric
///////////////MICRO-MACRO PROBLEM----EMERGENCE
//////////////An Intimate Biography of 1.2 Billion People, .... the nearly 800 million JNDNS who still depend on agriculture for a living.
////////////////BHVR OF SOCIAL ACTORS EG PATY, CORPN IS AGGREGATE BHVR OF LARGE NO OF INDIVIDUALS
////////////////RED QUEEN....BIOL ARMS RACE BETN PREDATOR AND PREY
///////////////OFOI- OWN FLGHT OF IDEAS
//////////////////GRANOVETTERS ROT MDLS
//////////////////..........exuberance, tawdriness, cruelty and melancholy of JNDE
////////////////MOST OF OUR DECISIONS DEPEND ON WHAT OTHER PPL THINK/BEHAVE EG BESTSELLERS LISTS
////////////SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION, SINCE FCBK 4.5
/////////////////////jNDE is imbued with the faith that a ‘dynamic’ class of producers/consumers will bring both economic and social change.
//////////////DHN- DSCNDNG DRGN
///////////////AIRLINE HUB NETWORKING EXAMPLE
///////////////PROFESSIONAL DISTANCE
/////////////////,,,,,,,,Intuitive thinking is associated with belief in the supernatural, and while analytic thinking does not necessarily cause disbelief, "activating analytical thinking can override the intuitive system—and vice versa," said the scientists behind the recent study
////////////////IDEA CONTAGION MEME
////////////////BRAINSTORMING IN A GROUP cf Counterintuitively, our brain is most creative when we leave it to its own devices rather than concentrating hard to find a solution.
LEAVE IT TO THE SLEEP COMMITTEE
//////////////////SPECIAL INFLUENCERS AS LEADERS
//////////////////ORDY INFLUENCERS AS TWTTR
///////////////////WALL OF EGO WITH ACHIVEMNT PHOTOS AND CERTIFICATES
/////////////////CIRC REASONING-“Whatever is less dense than water will float, because such objects won't sink in water” might pass. WKI
/////////////////TRUST MOLECULE- OXYTOCIN
//////////////////.......BRWSR.....when someone's level of oxytocin goes up, he or she responds more generously and caringly, even with complete strangers
/////////////////...........When one person extends himself to another in a trusting way—by, say, giving money—the person being trusted experiences a surge in oxytocin that makes her less likely to hold back and less likely to cheat.
///////////////........"That's up to you," the usual English term for the up-to-us-ness discussed by Greek philosophers is "free will."
///////////////..........describing thoughts or mental events as having the same possibility of causal efficacy as any other physical event
///////////////..........that humans are free spirits, unconstrained by chains of cause+effect in making choices. This however is untenable.
////////////////.........three possible ways our brains may make decisions.
One is as the result of chains of cause+effect in our brain functions.
Another is by the effect (if such can be shown) on our brain functions of randomness in accordance with quantum theory.
The third is by some some mixture of cause+effect and randomness.
//////////////HX, THE FICKLE TCHER
//////////////EGO DEPLETION.....They predicted the rejects would gorge themselves, and so they did. On average the rejects ate twice as many cookies as the popular people.
////////////............Self-regulation is an important part of being a person. You are the central character in the story of your life, the unreliable narrator in the epic tale of your past, present, and future.
OWN ROUTINISM ALTISM MTHDISM
//////////////////BRWSR...... You have a sense there is boundary between you and all the other atoms pulsating nearby, a sense of being a separate entity and not just a bag of organs and cells and molecules scooped out of the sea 530 million years ago. That sense of self cascades into a variety of other notions about your body and your mind called volition – the feeling of free will that provides you with the belief that you are in control of your decisions and choices. Volition makes you feel responsible for your actions both before and after they occur. There are a few thousand years of debate over what this actually means and whether or not it is an illusion through and through, but Baumeister’s research over the last decade or so has been about learning how that sense of self-control can be manipulated.
///////////////............Saying no to every naughty impulse from raiding the refrigerator to skipping class requires a little bit of willpower fuel, and once you spend that fuel it becomes harder to say no the next time. All of Baumeister’s research suggests self-control is a strenuous act.
/////////////////...........since self-regulation is required to be prosocial, you expect some sort of reward for regulating your behavior.
////////////////////////HX IS RUN ONLY ONCE ......FROZEN HX IS BIOLOGY
//////////////////////
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Sunday, 29 April 2012
Thursday, 26 April 2012
INNR MESS- SDDNLY LNELY EMPTY
/////////////AD TIME MINDFUL AWARENESS
//////////////Toby Litt, on reading
"The human race is no longer sufficently bored with life to be distracted by an art form as boring as the novel"
///////////////Present moment, beautiful moment.
///////////////////GENETIC SIMILARITY PROMOTES COOPERATION
///////////////////OLDR PPL HAPPIER
/////////////////WISDOM OF THE CROWDS- GROUP INTELLIGENCE
/////////////////////OLDR PPL ARE BETTER AT ENGAGING WTH SADNESS
///////////////PROSOCIAL WTH MONEY -CHARITY
////////////////PERSONAL cf PROSOCIAL CHOICE
/////////////////UNIVERSITY OF BLIMMING OBVIOUS-UBO STUDY
////////////////
INNR MESS- SDDNLY LNELY EMPTY
"The human race is no longer sufficently bored with life to be distracted by an art form as boring as the novel"
/////////////////
EVOLN HAS GVN HUMN A MDDLE AGE
/////////////////////////..........In prehistory, and still today, human survival is entirely dependent on skilled gathering of rare, valuable resources. Humans cooperate, plan and innovate so they can extract what they need from their environment, be that roots to eat, hides to wear or rare metals to coat smartphone touch screens. We lead an energy-intensive, communication-driven, information-rich way of life, and it was the evolution of middle age that supported this.
////////////////////////................ two roles of middle-aged humans — as super-providers and master culture-conveyers — continue today.
////////////////////////////////.......live long and pamper.
////////////////////////////////Douglas Coupland's Law Of Telephony
No matter what technology is used, your monthly phone bill magically remains about the same size
//////////////////////////////////INTELLIGENCE BYPRODUCT OF COOPERATION
//////////////////////////////TRAGIC MOVIES AND TV BD NWS cf MSD HELP COUNT BLSSINGS AND DO LF AUDIT
///////////////////////////////WHEEZING LAUGH
///////////////////////////////////
BISHONNO SHOKAL- MNDFULNSS=MNDFUL AWARENESS
/////////////////////STUDY WNDW MEDITTN
/////////////////////G PIG MEDITTN
/////////////////////////TV AD MEDITTN
////////////////////////////........DRPRD.....Philosophers call beliefs, wants, and intentions attitudes because they all involve having a certain kind of attitude toward something; they all involve what is sometimes called ‘direction upon something?
///////////////////////////////////some attitudes, such as belief, do not seem to have an experiential component.
///////////////////////////////////// to think of pain as entirely a pure ‘raw feel?, a distinctively unpleasant feeling, painfulness. But it is also very plausible to think of pain as an indication of bodily damage, as pointing to a distressed area of the body, especially when evolutionary considerations are in the forefront.
//////////////////////////////////////Y TB=Dr. Elisha Goldstein demonstrates The STOP Practice (Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed) from The Now Effect: How this Moment Can Change the Rest of Your Life by Elisha Goldstein, PhD.
////////////////////////////////AD BRK MNDFLNESS-SOAKING IN THE SILENCE AND AWARE
/////////////////////////////// Charles Richter was born
near Hamilton, Ohio, in 1900. Richter is most famous as the
creator of the Richter magnitude scale that, until the
development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, quantified
the size of earthquakes.
/////////////////////////////////Considered a "super food," quinoa, ("KEEN-wah") is a relative of beets, spinach and Swiss chard, but its seeds resemble a whole grain and are prepared and eaten in much the same way.
/////////////////////////////////When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have."
– Stephen Hawking
///////
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
FTHR VIPASANA- MNDFULNESS-MNDFUL AWARENESS
/////////////DOING MODE vs BEING MODE
/////////////THOUGHTS NOT SOLID REALITY BUT MENTAL CHATTER
///////////////WK 1 - BREATHING AND EATING MNDFULNSS MEDITATN
//////////////WK 2- BODY SCAN .....THINKING MIND vs SENSING MIND
/////////////////WK 3- YOGA INPUT
///////////////////WK 4- SOUNDS AND THOUGHTS
//////////////////WK 5- EXPLORING DIFFICULTY
//////////////////WK 6-BEFRIENDING SELF MEDITATN
/////////////////WK 7-CONNECTING ADL WITH MOOD, BHVR
////////////////WK 8-WEAVING MNDFLNSS IN DLY LF
/////////////////GETTING OFF THE AUTO PILOT
////////////RAISIN MEDITATN- ADL TO BE MNDFUL OF- WALKING, DRIVING, ON CALL, EACH PT ATTN, CLEANING, WASHING, GRDENING,TREAMILL, BRUSHING, EATING, TEA DRRINKING
////////////////SILENCE , STILLNESS POISE OF CDS
///////////////OUR BUTTERFLY BRAINS
////////////////CHANGING SOFA -HABIT RELEASER
////////////SPENDING SO MUCH TIME IN OUR HEAD, FORGETTING THE BODY
//////////......... As we cultivate our meditative skills, we become aware of the impermanence of life, situations, and feelings, of our deep interconnections with each other, and of the universal nature of suffering. We cannot help but feel compassion and empathy grow from this deep profound insight.
MEDITATN IMPERMANENCE INTERCONNECTN EMPATHY SUFFERING INSIGHT
//////////////////WALKING MEDITTAN
/////////////TEN FINGER GRATITUDE EXERCISE
//////////////////
/////////////////
////////////////
Monday, 23 April 2012
MULTIVERSE, STRING THEORY AND INFLATION
//////////////////REPULSIVE GRAVITY -DARK ENERGY
/////////////////SHIFT HAPPENS- PARADIGM SHIFT
////////////////////Scott Adams, on babies
Humans start their lives at the peak of their popularity. You will never regain the personal appeal you enjoyed as a baby
//////////////////////AND WE CAN ALL "IMAGINE"
//////////////////BIG RIP SPEEDING UP NOT SLOWING DOWN
//////////////////COSMIC SPEED UP
///////////////TECHNICAL DETAILS FOR INTERESTED EXPERTS
///////////////COSMIC SYMPHONY OF STRING THEORY
//////////////////DARK ENERGY DIFF DENSITY DIFF UNIVERSES-JUST TOO MUCH OR TOO LESS FOR GOLDILOCKS UNIVERSE JUST LIKE US
/////////////////GOLDILOCKS PLANET IS EARTH, TOO FAR FROM SUN OR TOO NEAR SUN WILL NOT YIELD LF LIKE US
//////////////INFLATIONARY COSMOLOGY
///////////////INFLATION GIVES RISE TO ALL BIG BANGS LIKE BUBBLES
///////////////B GREENE TED SN
//////////////
SLF CONSCNSS KLLS ARTST
//////////////////////TLLY TRVL TO PISA- LEANING TOWER OF PISA- SUBSIDENCE IN SANDSTONE
//////////////////////TO TUSCANY.....LOTS OF CULTR.....CHEERS....CIAO
///////////////////////////////WITTY BANTER
///////////////////////////////BUO- BLNK U OUT EMLS
///////////////////////////////////STORY TELLING- POWER OF THE ART FORM
//////////////////////////////////////SEA NEAR, HILLS FAR AWAY
///////////////////////////////////////////////TRADING OFF LOCATION TO SPACE
//////////////////////////////fish sausages of malaysia
/////////////////////////CRITICAL ILLNESS COVER NEEDED AFTER 40
////////////////////////////////A COND NEEDING RPTED HOSPITALISN UNLIKELY TO BE COVERED BY INSURANCE
/////////////////////////////////OLONDAZ TERM FROM HOLLANDE IN FRENCH ACCENT?
////////////////////////////UNARMD VHCLS AKA ERONES
///////////////////////////G PECK -FROM CAPTAIN AIHAB TO CAPTAIN HORNBLOWER-CNMA
/////////////////////////////DESPERATION OF GROPING IN THE DARK
///////////////////////////////// Man
considers himself to be so intelligent, he should know what to eat and
not to eat and how to eat it.
///////////////////////////////Browning, or the Maillard reaction, creates flavor and changes the color of food. Maillard reactions generally only begin to occur above 285°F (140°C). Until the Maillard reaction occurs meat will have less flavor. Shown above are two identical dishes cooked (left) below (140°C) and right at much higher temperatures. Both caramelization and the maillard reaction only occur on the right producing the noticeable brown color.
http://www.scienceofcooking.com/
////////////////////////////////// the protective effects of avocado oil against free radicals in mitochondria. On April 22, Cortés-Rojo presented his group's work at the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, held in conjunction with the Experimental Biology 2012 conference in San Diego.
///////////////////////////////////////// Since migraine sufferers are more likely to experience brain freeze
///////////////////////////////CF AND BURKHOLDERIA-SCI DLY....that autophagy is a potential target for new CF treatments, the researchers set out to better understand this process in CF macrophages that are unable to fight the B. cenocepacia infection. And that is when they found that p62 shows promise as an even more specific drug target. Additional studies of p62's effects on this bacterial infection are in progress.
////////////////////////////Hyperbaric oxygen could provide relief of chronic pain
/////////////////////////////WNDRFL VLBLE HMN BEING
////////////////////////////////.........Women with heart disease are more likely to give birth to female rather than male babies according to a new study.
///////////////////////////////nothing is impossible; the word itself says I'm possible!"
-- Audrey Hepburn
////////////////////////////////PER CAPITA BOOK READING- 50/YR
///////////////////////////////OVERSEEING OVERSEAS
//////////////////////////////// WNDRWFN
////////////////////////////////FEELING OF A NEED
////////////////////////////////////ILCST- 60L KWS MRDRD
///////////////////////////////PLAY ITSELF OUT OVER TIME-NOT PRE DETERMINED
/////////////////////////////IZ IZ IZ A ZOURCE OF ZATISFACTION ...ZWEET AND ZOUR
/////////////////////A MOMENT OF CONSCIENCE
///////////////////////////////01295 BITE ME
////////////////////////////////DISQUS
/////////////////////////////DISCUSS DISCITIS
//////////////////////////////////
Sunday, 22 April 2012
SN MVIE- HREAFTR
////////////////////////////LEAVE HIM BE
/////////////////////////////I am not what I am supposed to be. I am quite another thing. Perhaps before I go further, I had better glance at what I AM supposed to be.
///////////////////////////////Physicists want bigger and bigger machines to discover smaller and smaller things
/////////////////////////////////////////Charles Rosen, on surprise
"From our artists and entertainers we expect originality, and resent it when we get it"
//////////////////////////////MEDITATING ON VAGARIES OF LF
/////////////////////////FREUDIAN FRAUD
///////////////////////////////for people in general, the brain cannot be both anxious and aroused, it generally has to be one or the other, or neither."
//////////////////////////////BG THNK......"Music is powerful in its impact on human feeling and on the interpretation of events. It is extraordinarily complex in the neural circuits it employs, appearing to elicit emotion in at least six different brain mechanisms." In visual art, we recognize standards of appreciation which seem to come directly from how our brain processes visual information. "For example, neurobiological monitoring...have shown that the brain is most aroused by patterns in which there is about a 20 percent redundancy of elements."
///////////////////////////////..........biophilia, the innate affiliation people seek with other organisms, and especially with the living natural world
LV THE RYE
///////////////////////////...........The creative arts became possible as an evolutionary advance when humans developed the capacity for abstract thought.
/////////////////////////////...........as 1.7 million years ago, ancestors of modern humans, most likely Homo erectus, were shaping crude teardrop-shaped stone tools.
////////////////////////////............ tempting to think that the neural processing of language served a preadaptation to music, and that once music originated it proved sufficiently advantageous to acquire its own genetic predisposition.
///////////////////////////////............when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might discover your reason to live.
/////////////////////////////////OPM- OTHR PPL MATTER FOR HPPINSS
//////////////////////////////////AMBITION cf ENVY
///////////////////////////////FEN NCGRGR AND THE COLD CHAIN
/////////////////////////
PACEMAKER -CARDIAC AND MARATHON
/////////////////////It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
– Isaac Asimov
///////////////////////////
Saturday, 21 April 2012
SNCTIFIED WLDLF TV
/////////////////////////............ really, the whole human race should go extinct to avoid the risk thatOTHER SPECIES MAY SURVV?
//////////////////////////M]orality evolved to help us survive
////////////////////////////////POLICY PARLS
/////////////////////////////////JNDE has just a 50% chance of becoming a breakout nation (exceeding expectations of 7% GDP growth)
////////////////////////////////////A study of more than 200,000 Australians found that people who sat more than 11 hours a day had a 40% higher risk of dying in the next three years than people who sat less than four hours a day. "This was after adjusting for factors such as age, weight, physical ...
//////////////////////////////////////
RDING BK- THE NMBR MYSTRIEA
///////////////////////////jackson pollock paintings-JERKY MOTIONS AND FRACTALS
/////////////////////RT PARIETAL LOBE LESION EXPLAINS SELFLESSNESS-The study, “Right parietal lobe ‘selflessness’ as the neuropsychological basis of spiritual transcendence,” was published in the International Journal of the Psychology of Religion.
///////////////////////4 COLOURS NEEDED TO SHADE A MAP OF EUROPE
////////////////////////...........Despite its versatility, propofol doesn’t cause sleep. If given enough, it will cause oblivion, but the cerebral activity necessary for sleep to be refreshing does not take place. Even though the person looks to be asleep from the outside, general anaesthesia is not sleep.
/////////////////////......Scott Adams, on Steve Jobs
"Apparently Jobs had a lifelong battle with reality and won"
//////////////////////Among all of the animals, we probably uniquely are aware that we’re going to die.
///////////////////////////////GILGAMESH cf NACHIKETA
/////////////////////////////////Researchers have found that children who have experienced severe trauma are three times as likely to develop schizophrenia in later life.
//////////////////////////////////Researchers have found that greater consumption of sugar-sweetened and low-calorie sodas is associated with a higher risk of stroke. Conversely, consumption of caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee was associated with a lower risk.
//////////////////////////////////// Our left cheek shows more emotion, which observers find more aesthetically pleasing
///////////////////////////////////LOTTO WIN 1 IN 14 MN
///////////////////////////////////LOTTO NOS AS LIKELY TO BE CLUMPED AS NOT
////////////////////////////We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results."
– Herman Melville
////////////////////////////////GONE 2012 MVIE-Mrs. Conway! Adults have the right to disappear.
////////////////////////////////NUM8ER MY5STERIES
/////////////////////////////////BREAKS ARE BRAKES ON A FAST PACED LF
///////////////////////////////http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~gurwitz/core5/nav2tool.html
DECIMAL TEN FINGERED TO BINARY (CMPTR)
//////////////////////////////MAGIC SQUARES OF CHNA, INDE, AND ALBRET DURES MELANCHOLIA
/////////////////////////////////EULERS THEOREM
/////////////////////////////TRAVELLING SALESMAN PROBLEM
///////////////////////////////////BEETHOVENS FIFTH IN MORSE =VICTORY
/////////////////////////////////ALL ISBN NOS ARE DIVISIBLE BY 11
/////////////////////////////TO THE POWER IS CALLED MODULO
/////////////////////////////////Kasner decided that 10^100 - or, the number one followed by a hundred zeroes - would henceforth be known as a googol.
GOOGLE MISSPELT TO GOOLE
//////////////////////////////////covert racism (i e cultural differences)
////////////////////// Coping wth ruthless management, difficult pts, covert racism (i e cultural differences! ), jealous colleagues
////////////////////////////OL.......The West began at the pay phone at the gas station in Lee Vining, the little town next to Mono Lake on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, too remote for cell phones.
//////////////////////////////The chief business of the Bmerican people is business.
Calvin Coolidge, Jan. 17, 1924
////////////////////////
//////////////////////////////////FOOTBALL OF LEAD AND FOOTBALL OF AIR WILL HIT GROUND SIMULTANEOUSLY ......GALILEO TRIUMPHED OVER ARISTOTLE
/////////////////////////////////ROONEY , FREE KICK, QUADRATIC EQNS
//////////////////////////////////BUTTERFLY EFFECT....EL NINO
/////////////////////////////////CHAOTIC TURBULENCE vs LAMINAR FLOW
//////////////////////////////
Friday, 20 April 2012
NWS- QK QLN DRSH - MANYD- STDY LV DNL CRSS
"But then came the price tag. When the experimental subject was exposed to the cost of the product, the insula and prefrontal cortex were activated. The insula produces aversive feelings and is triggered by things like nicotine withdrawal and pictures of people in pain. In general, we try to avoid anything that makes our insulas excited. This includes spending money. The prefrontal cortex was activated, scientists speculated, because this rational area was computing the numbers, trying to figure out if the product was actually a good deal. The prefrontal cortex got most excited during the experiment when the cost of the item on display was significantly lower than normal.
///////////////...........NEDOBD....there are an infinite amount of nonexistent people who seem quite content in their current situation.
///////////////////ELUSIVE CHASE FOR PERFECTION
///////////////.....philosopher David Benatar comes to some even more surprising conclusions based on how we think of pleasure and pain. Every life is a mixture of both, to be sure, but Benatar concludes that the world is worse off when needless suffering is brought into it. So what about those people who are happy to have been born despite the pain they undoubtedly suffer from time to time? They are fooling themselves, says Benatar, because their genes come from a long lineage of people who thought procreating was a good idea. Though one might rightly wonder why Benatar continues to shoulder his own burdensome life.,,,,BG THNK
////////////////RT IS WRNG.....LFT IS RT
//////////////BOB MARLEY THE VOICE OF REGGAE JMAICA
///////////////HAVING HUMAN PULLS
///////////////............D
avid Benatar, a professor at the University of Cape Town, also turns to philosophy to determine the ideal family size. He gives away his answer in the title of his book, “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence” (Oxford). The volume is dedicated to his parents, “even though they brought me into existence,” and to his brothers, “each of whose existence, although a harm to him, is a great benefit to the rest of us.” (It’s fun to imagine what family reunions with the Benatars are like.)
//////////////////...........that a life filled with good and containing only the most minute quantity of bad—a life of utter bliss adulterated only by the pain of a single pin-prick—is worse than no life at all,” Benatar writes.
///////////////////..........Sophocles’ “Oedipus at Colonus” in which the chorus observes:
Never to have been born is best,
But once you’ve entered this world,
Return as quickly as possible to the place you came from.
//////////////////...........old Jewish saying: “Life is so terrible, it would have been better not to have been born. Who is so lucky? Not one in a hundred thousand.”
///////////////............Whatever you may think of Overall’s and Benatar’s conclusions, it’s hard to argue with their insistence that the decision to have a child is an ethical one. When we set the size of our families, we are, each in our own small way, determining how the world of the future will look. And we’re doing this not just for ourselves and our own children; we’re doing it for everyone else’s children, too. ♦
///////////////FEAR OF SPENDING EXCITES INSULA
/////////////////
NEURONES- ELECTRICITY-PACKETS CALLED ACTION POTENTIAL
I’ve stopped battling and fighting with myself and learnt to accept that THIS IS JUST HOW IT IS!
— Lisa
/////////////mindfulness- brain break
////////////LIKE A 34 YR OLD WALKING AND OBSERVING
/////////////SENSE OF SPONTANEITY
//////////////FIGHT OR FLIGHT MODE OF AMYGDALA
//////////////MINDFULNESS SWITCHES OFF AMYGDALA
/////////////SETTLES RATHER THAN CONSTANTLY LOOKING FOR THREAT
/////////////INSULA-ACTIVE IN EMPATHY-STIMULATED BY MNDFULNSS
/////////////////.........Henry Ford, on market research
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse"
/////////////////////.......Sacism is not inherent like the ability to learn how to read. It’s learned. And we are teaching it well. brwsr
////////////////////SPEEDING UP METABOLISM- Green tea, which is rich in antioxidants is one example as is fish oil and pistachio nuts
///////////////////ACTIVE IRRESPONSIBILITY
////////////////SPECULATION, DECLARATION AND HOCKEY STICK OF CONFIDENCE
//////////////////
NEURONES- ELECTRICITY-PACKETS CALLED ACTION POTENTIAL
////////////////
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
MLGNNT FTHR - MORE MD THN BD
//////////////////DSTRBD MND-RKM?
FTHR MLGNNT MNIA
"That's the best part about history—we don't know what's going to happen"
//////////////////////////////MXD FLNG FTHR GD-BD-MNIC
Monday, 16 April 2012
INTELLIGENCE, BRAIN SIZE AND GENE HMGA2
///////////////////OL HENCEFORTH
//////////////////////////BNGLI YR 1419 STARTS
///////////////////////////KWS SHPHRDS BETN FGPTNS AND QRSNS-BSTRLN DTHLC QRST
////////////////////////////LV AND PCE
///////////////////////////......A study reveals women in the 2000s who went to college or university spent more time doing paid work and did less housework compared with similarly educated women in the 1970s.
/////////////////////////////LIVING A LONG SICK EXPENSIVE LF cf COMPRESSED MORBIDITY IN LAST 5 YRS OF LF
////////////////////////////////
//////////////////////////
BREATHE CALM IN, BREATHE OUT RELAX
////////////////////CARETAKER RECPROCITY ENTENTE
////////////////////////Weigert-Meyer rule, with an obstructed upper pole moiety on the right, with an ectopic ureter inserting below the bladder
UPPER MOEITY GETS OBSTRUCTED IN DUPLEX---UO
/////////////////////////////.........research shows that people who place a high value on wealth, status, and stuff are more depressed and anxious and less sociable than those who do not
///////////////////////////////..........
The part of the brain we use when engaging in egalitarian behavior may also be linked to a larger sense of morality, researchers have found
////////////////////////////////
GAR ST TALUTE
We have been lost to each other for so long.
Friday, 13 April 2012
FLERE-UP, CLIMBDOWN
/////////////////// ......the world as a complex place on the edge of chaos
////////////////////MOVING UP...LIVING DOWN
////////////////////Working the graveyard shift can increase the risk of developing diabetes via two separate mechanisms, according to a Harvard Medical School study, The double whammy of sleep deprivation and a sleep/wake schedule that’s out of sync with the body’s internal biological clock reduces the amount of insulin secreted by the pancreas
/////////////////////Trinity College researchers have constructed an artificial neural network model that demonstrates that human intelligence evolved from the need for social teamwork. The high levels of intelligence seen in humans, other primates, certain cetaceans, and birds remain a major puzzle for evolutionary biologists, anthropologists and psychologists. It has long been held that social interactions provide the selection …
SOCIAL COOPERATION >>>>INTELLIGENCE
////////////////////////.......The famed futurist Ray Kurzweil’s “Singularity” makes Kaku’s predictions seem modest. Kurzweil postualtes that somewhere around the middle of this century, Artificial Intelligence will have progressed to the point that it exceeds human intelligence.
///////////////////////////COOPERATION cf DEFECTION
///////////////////////////........Rapid Increases In HbA1c, FPG May Predict Type 2 Diabetes Onset.
MedWire (4/13, Grasmo) reports that according to a study published online March 28 in the journal Diabetes Care, "trajectories for glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) rapidly increase in the late stage prior to diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, following gradual long-term increases.
////////////////////////// ........even toddlers have a tendency to follow the crowd
////////////////////////////.........Those who frequently use different types of media at the same time appear to be better at integrating information from multiple senses -- vision and hearing in this instance -- when asked to perform a specific task, new research shows.
///////////////////////////////
RD BK SWAY
///////////////////////MOULDING INTO A DIAGNOSIS- ALSO EXAM RESULTS
///////////////////........... including loss aversion (our tendency to go to great lengths to avoid perceived losses), the diagnosis bias (our inability to reevaluate our initial diagnosis of a person or situation), and the "chameleon effect" (our tendency to take on characteristics that have been arbitrarily assigned to us).
//////////////////////NEGATIVE AND EXTERNAL FEELINGS ABT OLD AGE MAKE PPL PHYSICALLY TO AGE FASTER
///////////////////////.......sway," the submerged mental drives that undermine rational action, from the desire to avoid loss to a failure to consider all the evidence or to perceive a person or situation beyond the initial impression and the reluctance to alter a plan that isn't working.
/////////////////////////WE R CONSTANTLY SENDING AND RECEIVING CUES TO OTHERS AND SWAYING IN OUR ACTIONS AND DECISIONS
///////////////////////////DEEP ROOTED BELIEF IN FAIRNESS
///////////////////////////.........Celebrity endorsements, price offs, real people testimonials etc. etc. All these methods are used to get people to part with their money.
///////////////////////RETHINKING FAIRNESS cf PROFIT MARGIN IN SALES
/////////////////////////...........While some may say that such tactics are useful to consumers i.e. that they present benefits to consumers, they are still sneaky tactics because in the end they serve to sway you towards irrational behaviour.
///////////////////////TNRF CRSH-The authors did a good job of explaining all the pressure he was under and the various mini-decisions he had made along the way leading up to his last one, but ultimately he made an arrogant decision that killed a ton of people. This decision did sort of reinvigorate the industry's approach to safety and pilot training, however
///////////////////////......interviews are a poor predictor in general, because some people are just better at selling themselves than others.
/////////////////////////...........They found that men who received a letter with a picture of a woman were much more likely to sign up than men who received letters with a photo of a man.
/////////////////////////ALTRUISM CENTER OF BRAIN- POSTR SUPR TEMPORAL SULCUS
//////////////////////////////.......actually read it or not, we're all doomed. Doomed, doomed, doomed.
/////////////////////////////////............So we live in two worlds: one characterized by social exchanges and the other characterized by market exchanges. And we apply different norms to these two kinds of relationships. Moreover, introducing market norms into social exchanges, as we have seen, violates the social norms and hurts the relationships. . . . when a social norm collides with a market norm, the social norm goes away for a long time.
///////////////////////////////PLSR CENTRE HIJACKING ALTEUISM CENTR
////////////////////////////////IN GRP ALLIANCES
///////////////////////////////..........traditional “spiders,” which have a rigid hierarchy and top-down leadership, and revolutionary “starfish,” which rely on the power of peer relationships.
//////////////////////////AIR PILOTS- POWER INDEX
//////////////////////FAIRNESS SWAY
////////////////////////////GIVING VOICE TO DISSENTER IMPROVES CHANCES OF RATIONAL DECISION
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RCIP- LTTL STRPD PET RAT FND DD ON PATIO
/////////////////////////"If there is no God for thee Then there is no God for me."
(Anna Hempstead Branch)
/////////////////////////“Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.”
(William Shakespeare)
///////////////////////////"Old men miss many dogs."
(Steve Allen)
///////////////////////////Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart”
(John Adams)
/////////////////////////////////“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”
(Hilary Stanton Zunin)
/////////////////////////////////“Every one can master a grief but he that has it.”
(William Shakespeare)
JGTG OPAN
///////////////////////////////"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened"
/////////////////////////////////Some animals come into our lives and quietly go.
Others leave pawprints on our hearts, and we are never the same again."
/////////////////////////////////////////"A house is not a home without a pet"
/////////////////////////////"Until there are none, adopt one"
//////////////////////////////////Death ends at last the fear of it.
EDWARD COUNSEL, Maxims
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Thursday, 12 April 2012
RDING FRANKEL- MSFM
/////////////ALSO HAS BITTERNESS AND DISILLUSIONMENT
/////////////Ice in the mouth for epistaxis
///////////////HOPELESSNESS RETURNS IF NO ONE AWAITED HIM
////////////////NOTHING HE NEEDED TO FEAR ANYMORE EXCEPT HIS HOD
////////////////.....Eric Schmidt, a software engineer and executive chairman at Google, every 48 hours there is more content being created on the internet than all the content that was created from the beginning of time to 2003.
/////////////////LOGO Rx AIMS TO FUTURE-LESS RETROSPECTIVE, LESS INTROSPECTIVE
//////////////INFORMATION DIET....Johnson says many people aren’t searching for information, but “affirmation.” We search for facts and opinions that confirm our existing beliefs, but we avoid facts and opinions that put our beliefs into question. In psychology this is referred to as a “confirmation bias.” This is why some people only watch one news station or visit one blog that shares their views. We like information that adheres to what we believe, but this tendency can lead us to ignore other information that is just as important.
///////////////....... another symptom of “information obesity” is feeling anxious about information that isn’t actionable or relevant to our lives.
///////////////.........there is a new kind of “digital literacy” emerging. 5,000 years ago literacy was a trade secret only known by scribes, 300 years ago literacy was the ability to write your name, and today literacy means being able to read a newspaper. However, Johnson suspects 30 years from now saying, “I’m not a computer person.” will be the equivalent of someone saying, “I don’t know how to read.”
////////////////LOGORx REORIENTS TO MEANING OF LF- MNNG STR (D ROWE)
///////////////EXISTENTIAL FRUSTN - MAN FAILS TO WILL TO MEANING
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RDING FRANKEL- MSFM
PSYCHOHYGEINE- LF SAVING PROCEDURE IN PRISON
COULD IT BE A FATHERHOOD WAITING OR A BOOK TO BE WRITTEN OR EXPERIENCES GATHERED
BTKDOSM - BAD THINGS KILL, DISABLE OR STRENGHTHENS ME- PARAPHRASING NIETZSCHE
WHAT U HAVE EXPERIENCED, NO POWER CAN TAKE IT FROM U= UNIQUE SELF WITH MY LEX PORTFOLIO
MEANING OF LF INCLUDES SUFFERING, DYING, PRIVATION AND DTH
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AD CR DNT CRSS AD DRV LCNC RTRN CRSS cf NYD CRSS
///////////////////////MOPWD- MKNG OWN PEACE WITH FTHR
//////////////////////////decline in decision making in novel sitn decr with age- sci daily-The evidence that this decline in decision-making is associated with white-matter integrity suggests that there may be effective ways to intervene," said Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin, the post-doctoral fellow in Vanderbilt's psychology department and Institute of Imaging Science, who is the study's first author. "Several studies have shown that white-matter connections can be strengthened by specific forms of cognitive training."
The critical white-matter connections that the experiment identified run from the thalamus, a highly connected relay center in the brain, to the medial prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain involved with decision making, and from the medial prefrontal cortex to the ventral striatum, which is associated with the emotional and motivational aspects of behavior.
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INTENSE, NOT TENSE
///////////////////FOLLOWING PARAMPARA- LNTIOC
////////////////////////THE ART OF TRAVEL
////////////////////////......“If there is an all-powerful and loving Hd in this world, why is there so much excruciating pain and unspeakable suffering? AT MOST BENIGN BUT INEFFECTIVE HD
/////////////////////PHRASES THAT STICK
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Wednesday, 11 April 2012
CLL WHVR U WNT , THE MN IS DD- 2.5 MN
RD BK MNS SRCH FR MNING V FRANKL
///////////////////////Logotherapy is founded upon the belief that it is the striving to find a meaning in one's life that is the primary, most powerful motivating and driving force in humans.
//////////////////////WIKIPEDIA....The following list of tenets represents basic principles of logotherapy:
Life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones.
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
We have freedom to find meaning in what we do, and what we experience, or at least in the stand we take when faced with a situation of unchangeable suffering.[4]
//////////////////////////MY FRIEN THE LAUREL TREE AND THE PRSNRS ROUTINE
////////////////////////////////PROVISIONAL EXISTENCE OF UNKNOWN LIMIT
/////////////////////////////LOGOS- MEANING IN GRK , MEANING THERAPY
//////////////////////////////NO FINIS IN SIGHT
//////////////////////////////////TIME EXPERIENCE OF PRSNR
/////////////////////////////,,,,,,,,,,,,identifies three psychological reactions experienced by all inmates to one degree or another:
(1) shock during the initial admission phase to the camp,
(2) apathy after becoming accustomed to camp existence, in which the inmate values only that which helps himself and his friends survive, and
(3) reactions of depersonalization, moral deformity, bitterness, and disillusionment if he survives and is liberated.
//////////////////////////////INNER TRIUMPH OF PRSNR ROUTINE OR VEGETATE
//////////////////////////In clearer English, sub specie aeternitatis roughly means "from the perspective of the eternal".
//////////////////////////////Thomas Nagel, in The Absurd, wrote:
Yet humans have the special capacity to step back and survey themselves, and the lives to which they are committed... Without developing the illusion that they are able to escape from their highly specific and idiosyncratic position, they can view it sub specie aeternitatis—and the view is at once sobering and comical.
/////////////////////////////////GIVING UP= LOSS OF FAITH IN THE FUTURE= LEARNED HELPLESSNESS AND ACCEPTING IT
//////////////////////////////////In Frankl's view, the spirit is the will of the human being. The emphasis, therefore, is on the search for meaning, which is not necessarily the search for God or any other supernatural being.[5] Frankl also noted the barriers to humanity's quest for meaning in life. He warns against "...affluence, hedonism, [and] materialism..." in the search for meaning.[6]
///////////////////////////////////........If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.[2]
////////////////////////HE WHO HAS A WHY TO LIVE CAN BEAR THE ANYHOW....NIEZTSCHE
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Monday, 9 April 2012
Ageing
"This is what it's like to get old: You still feel 19, except your knees hurt"
Tuogon. Cr crss helped
MILD STAIR STEP UPS
"Children are the R&D of the human species, adults are the production and marketing”
///////////BRAIN- CONNECTIONS MAY BE THE KEY-CONNECTOME
/////////////...... gesture is some kind of universal natural language
///////////////........The digitus impudicus that Romans insulted each other with is the same digit we use for that purpose today (and while the phrase “digitus impudicus” takes some education and background to decipher, a display of the “impudent finger” does not).
.......When we speak, we shape our thoughts for language, and when we gesture, we shape them in the space in front of us.
laphams qtrly
///////////////......Buddhism is typically associated in the Western imagination – or at least in that substantial portion of it represented in and shaped by our advertising – with the idea of a stress-free life, an escape from responsibility. You sit in loose, white linen on a spotless veranda overlooking the sea and hum: Ommm. For Kadam Morten, a teacher in the New Kadampa tradition, this couldn’t be farther from reality. Buddhist spiritual practice, he says, is just that – a practice. As such, it demands lifelong discipline not apart from, but in the midst of life’s difficulties.
big think
////////////////BDDHISM AS SC AND PHILO OF MIND- A WAY OF LF-A PATH
//////////////////....“if nothing changes, nothing changes.
.......And once you see that you can bring about change in yourself, then you recognize that changing everything is possible – it just depends on our outlook, it depends on our mind.”
////////////THE ZEN NOW MINDFUL RITUAL
//////////////BDDHISM IS A METHOD
......What’s important is are you becoming more peaceful, more loving, more compassionate? Is your own anger reducing? Geshe Kelsang says the real source of happiness is inner peace. Whatever’s on your mind is peaceful, you’re happy and you can experience that directly,” he says.
........STRESS WITHOUT ACCEPTING IS LIKE DRIVING WITH THE HANDBRAKES ON
.........Oh, look. Anger. No big deal. Just let it go.’
.........Happiness comes through peace.”
.......... But the real problem is you have an uncomfortable mind, doesn’t matter how comfortable the situation is
.........Instead of being an object of anger, they become your object of patience,”
............. I think one of the misconceptions about Buddhism is that it’s also about running away, heading for the hills or becoming an aesthetic or walking around very slowly and drinking tea very slowly. Actually, it’s about developing a quick mind. It’s really a very creative practice that enables you to make use of anything that’s going on in your life as part of your training, as part of becoming a better person.”
............WISDOM TO LET GO
KADAM MORTEN
/////////////LGBTQ BME
//////////////INITIALISM
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ORANGE LICHEN DESERTS OF NAMIB
Bpls trauma scenario setest. Great pullthrough
//////////////....... Human history at last took off around 50,000 years ago, at the time of what I have termed our Great Leap Forward
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